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Isa. 56:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; δsleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep.

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watchmen.

Isa. 52:8• ⁸Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion. (Isa. 52:8)

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Ezek. 3:17• ¹⁷Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. (Ezek. 3:17)

are blind.

Isa. 29:10• ¹⁰For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. (Isa. 29:10)

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Jer. 14:13‑14• ¹³Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
¹⁴Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Jer. 14:13‑14)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Hos. 9:7‑8• ⁷The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
⁸The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. (Hos. 9:7‑8)

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Matt. 15:14• ¹⁴Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (Matt. 15:14)

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Matt. 23:16‑26• ¹⁶Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
¹⁷Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
¹⁹Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
²⁰Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
²¹And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
²²And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
²³Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
²⁴Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
²⁵Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
²⁶Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. (Matt. 23:16‑26)

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Luke 6:39‑40• ³⁹And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
⁴⁰The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. (Luke 6:39‑40)

they are all dumb.

Isa. 58:1• ¹Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)

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Jer. 6:13‑14• ¹³For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
¹⁴They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. (Jer. 6:13‑14)

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Jer. 23:13‑14• ¹³And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
¹⁴I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. (Jer. 23:13‑14)

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Ezek. 3:15‑18,26‑27• ¹⁵Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
¹⁶And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
¹⁷Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
²⁶And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
²⁷But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek. 3:15‑18,26‑27)

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Ezek. 13:16• ¹⁶To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. 13:16)

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Ezek. 33:6• ⁶But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. (Ezek. 33:6)

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Phil. 3:2• ²Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. (Phil. 3:2)

sleeping.

or, dreaming, or talking in their sleep.

loving.

Prov. 6:4‑10• ⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
⁵Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: (Prov. 6:4‑10)

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Prov. 24:30‑34• ³⁰I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
³¹And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
³²Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
³³Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
³⁴So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. (Prov. 24:30‑34)

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Jonah 1:2‑6• ²Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
³But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
⁴But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
⁵Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
⁶So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. (Jonah 1:2‑6)

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Nah. 3:18• ¹⁸Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. (Nah. 3:18)

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Mark 13:34‑37• ³⁴For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
³⁵Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
³⁶Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
³⁷And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark 13:34‑37)

• Those who should warn and defend were like drunkards, filled with false optimism. (“Isaiah 56” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber: